mm, page_alloc: consider dirtyable memory in terms of nodes

Historically dirty pages were spread among zones but now that LRUs are
per-node it is more appropriate to consider dirty pages in a node.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-17-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 61 insertions, 30 deletions

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 0ada2b2954b0..f7c0fb993fb9 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -267,26 +267,35 @@ static void wb_min_max_ratio(struct bdi_writeback *wb,
  */
 
 /**
- * zone_dirtyable_memory - number of dirtyable pages in a zone
- * @zone: the zone
+ * node_dirtyable_memory - number of dirtyable pages in a node
+ * @pgdat: the node
  *
- * Returns the zone's number of pages potentially available for dirty
- * page cache.  This is the base value for the per-zone dirty limits.
+ * Returns the node's number of pages potentially available for dirty
+ * page cache.  This is the base value for the per-node dirty limits.
  */
-static unsigned long zone_dirtyable_memory(struct zone *zone)
+static unsigned long node_dirtyable_memory(struct pglist_data *pgdat)
 {
-	unsigned long nr_pages;
+	unsigned long nr_pages = 0;
+	int z;
+
+	for (z = 0; z < MAX_NR_ZONES; z++) {
+		struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + z;
+
+		if (!populated_zone(zone))
+			continue;
+
+		nr_pages += zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES);
+	}
 
-	nr_pages = zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES);
 	/*
 	 * Pages reserved for the kernel should not be considered
 	 * dirtyable, to prevent a situation where reclaim has to
 	 * clean pages in order to balance the zones.
 	 */
-	nr_pages -= min(nr_pages, zone->totalreserve_pages);
+	nr_pages -= min(nr_pages, pgdat->totalreserve_pages);
 
-	nr_pages += node_page_state(zone->zone_pgdat, NR_INACTIVE_FILE);
-	nr_pages += node_page_state(zone->zone_pgdat, NR_ACTIVE_FILE);
+	nr_pages += node_page_state(pgdat, NR_INACTIVE_FILE);
+	nr_pages += node_page_state(pgdat, NR_ACTIVE_FILE);
 
 	return nr_pages;
 }
@@ -299,13 +308,24 @@ static unsigned long highmem_dirtyable_memory(unsigned long total)
 	int i;
 
 	for_each_node_state(node, N_HIGH_MEMORY) {
-		for (i = 0; i < MAX_NR_ZONES; i++) {
-			struct zone *z = &NODE_DATA(node)->node_zones[i];
+		for (i = ZONE_NORMAL + 1; i < MAX_NR_ZONES; i++) {
+			struct zone *z;
+			unsigned long dirtyable;
+
+			if (!is_highmem_idx(i))
+				continue;
+
+			z = &NODE_DATA(node)->node_zones[i];
+			dirtyable = zone_page_state(z, NR_FREE_PAGES) +
+				zone_page_state(z, NR_ZONE_LRU_FILE);
 
-			if (is_highmem(z))
-				x += zone_dirtyable_memory(z);
+			/* watch for underflows */
+			dirtyable -= min(dirtyable, high_wmark_pages(z));
+
+			x += dirtyable;
 		}
 	}
+
 	/*
 	 * Unreclaimable memory (kernel memory or anonymous memory
 	 * without swap) can bring down the dirtyable pages below
@@ -445,23 +465,23 @@ void global_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground, unsigned long *pdirty)
 }
 
 /**
- * zone_dirty_limit - maximum number of dirty pages allowed in a zone
- * @zone: the zone
+ * node_dirty_limit - maximum number of dirty pages allowed in a node
+ * @pgdat: the node
  *
- * Returns the maximum number of dirty pages allowed in a zone, based
- * on the zone's dirtyable memory.
+ * Returns the maximum number of dirty pages allowed in a node, based
+ * on the node's dirtyable memory.
  */
-static unsigned long zone_dirty_limit(struct zone *zone)
+static unsigned long node_dirty_limit(struct pglist_data *pgdat)
 {
-	unsigned long zone_memory = zone_dirtyable_memory(zone);
+	unsigned long node_memory = node_dirtyable_memory(pgdat);
 	struct task_struct *tsk = current;
 	unsigned long dirty;
 
 	if (vm_dirty_bytes)
 		dirty = DIV_ROUND_UP(vm_dirty_bytes, PAGE_SIZE) *
-			zone_memory / global_dirtyable_memory();
+			node_memory / global_dirtyable_memory();
 	else
-		dirty = vm_dirty_ratio * zone_memory / 100;
+		dirty = vm_dirty_ratio * node_memory / 100;
 
 	if (tsk->flags & PF_LESS_THROTTLE || rt_task(tsk))
 		dirty += dirty / 4;
@@ -470,19 +490,30 @@ static unsigned long zone_dirty_limit(struct zone *zone)
 }
 
 /**
- * zone_dirty_ok - tells whether a zone is within its dirty limits
- * @zone: the zone to check
+ * node_dirty_ok - tells whether a node is within its dirty limits
+ * @pgdat: the node to check
  *
- * Returns %true when the dirty pages in @zone are within the zone's
+ * Returns %true when the dirty pages in @pgdat are within the node's
  * dirty limit, %false if the limit is exceeded.
  */
-bool zone_dirty_ok(struct zone *zone)
+bool node_dirty_ok(struct pglist_data *pgdat)
 {
-	unsigned long limit = zone_dirty_limit(zone);
+	int z;
+	unsigned long limit = node_dirty_limit(pgdat);
+	unsigned long nr_pages = 0;
+
+	for (z = 0; z < MAX_NR_ZONES; z++) {
+		struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + z;
+
+		if (!populated_zone(zone))
+			continue;
+
+		nr_pages += zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
+		nr_pages += zone_page_state(zone, NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
+		nr_pages += zone_page_state(zone, NR_WRITEBACK);
+	}
 
-	return zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
-	       zone_page_state(zone, NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) +
-	       zone_page_state(zone, NR_WRITEBACK) <= limit;
+	return nr_pages <= limit;
 }
 
 int dirty_background_ratio_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,